Practical projects

With two massive global problems like Climate Change and Peak Oil, it is easy to worry that one person or a small group can’t impact the problem. But people across the planet are mobilising to understand that they can regain the initiative, they can impact for the better their own lives, and those who live immediately around them.

So Transition Poole sits within the Transition BH hub, and the worldwide Transition movement, as a means to educate ourselves, to empower ourselves and each other, and to make real change at a local level.

We are embarking on a number of practical projects to engage people in making incremental change in their own lives. Celebrating and sharing their skills, re-creating a sense of community, and getting on with those things we can achieve.

Thousands of high street outlets have closed in the last decade, leaving behind a wasteland of betting shops. But one community in York has found a simple way to reverse the decline. Could their model be used nationwide? ... See more